[governance] [JNC - Forum] Call for Participation: Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Deirdre Williams <
williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Everyone knows what multistakeholder is. That's easy."
>
> Respectfully, (I'm making a comment/asking for clarification, not trying
> to pick a quarrel), I have the impression that the problem is that everyone
> *doesn't* know, or rather that everyone doesn't agree. "Multistakeholder"
> seems to me to have become a "Humpty Dumpty" word -
> 'When *I* use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it
> means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
> (from Alice Through the Looking Glass/Lewis Carroll /
> http://sabian.org/looking_glass6.php)
> I've begun to record, for my own benefit, when how and where the term is
> used, and to notice those contexts in which it is not used.
> Does "multistakeholder" now have a stable definition? Does
> "multistakeholderism"?
> Best wishes
> Deirdre
>
> The most stable definition:   *Fig leaf for US dominance*
  .
Louis
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